Pos ition

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EY

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: Educational Assistant - EA

4

Location

Elsie Yanik

Hours/Week

25-31

Hours per week

Start Date

ASAP

Closing Date

September

15

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Job Reference

EY

2

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Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a full-time Educational Assistant in ECS.

Qualifications: Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma SMG (Safe Management Group) training may be required

Requirements: Support students' growth in the areas of cognition, communication, physical and social development Support and/or implement teacher directed programming Work team-oriented under guidance of teacher, CST and members of a multi-disciplinary team

Complete student or safety documentation, if directed by supervisor Implement specialist (OT, PT, SLP, etc) strategies to achieve required goals Implement behaviour management and educational strategies that facilitate student learning

Communicate effectively with students using age appropriate positive reinforcements and/or school specific behaviour strategies Observe student behaviour with focus on achieving positive behavioural/educational outcomes and mitigate/prevent negative ones Provide high level of structure to facilitate completion of required learning outcomes

Work and play at student's physical level of their activities Provide support in use of adaptive and learning technologies using a variety of devices and associated programs,



including for speech and non-verbal communication Medical Procedures - including, but not limited to, Catheter, Tube feeding, Feeding and swallowing support, toileting routines or diabetic monitoring may be required

Able to understand, implement and support modified curriculum Able to work with and support students with Autism or complex medical needs Physically handle and transfer students when unsafe Physical ability to lift and move students

Provide school directed indoor and outdoor student supervision Follow all relevant health and safety requirements as directed by supervisor

Employee is expected to work with behaviours related/associated with conduct, obsessive/compulsive, trauma and stress related, severe chronic depressive, feeding and/or eating disorders etc. Other behaviours related to ADHD, emotional/behavioural, learning and speech & language-related disabilities, etc may be encountered.

The successful candidate will be required to provide a Criminal Reference Check and a Vulnerable Sector Check. FMCSD will contact past and present employers for references. All FMCSD employees are expected to be computer literate; this includes fluency with e-mail, Internet and MS Office.

Only those applications submitted and received by 4:00pm on the closing date will be considered for this position.

We thank all applicants for their interest.

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